Paul and Joanne
“I’ve repeatedly said that for people who have as little in common as Joanne and myself, we have an uncommonly good marriage. We are actors. We make pictures and that’s about all we have in common. Maybe that’s enough. Wives shouldn’t feel obligated to accompany their husbands to a ball game, husbands do look a bit silly attending morning coffee breaks with the neighborhood wives when most men are out at work. Husbands and wives should have separate interests, cultivate different sets of friends and not impose on the other … You can’t spend a lifetime breathing down each other’s necks … We are very, very different people and yet somehow we fed off those varied differences and instead of separating us, it has made the whole bond a lot stronger.”
Oh, Amanda Mae, so beautiful. Such philosophy holds true in my life. You know? You know this person, whom I can’t imagine a day without, who makes me laugh out loud everyday. Who shoulders my burdens, as I shoulder his.
Am I lucky? I don’t think so, I wanted this beauty in my life a long time. Back before I knew there could be such a person, I said I wanted such, “out loud.” I waited. In retrospect, it seems a long time I waited, but I kept saying it as I waited. Years passed. Then it came to be.
Perhaps I am lucky enough to be one who could bear the waiting?
The one who could bear the waiting… that is lovely, Rick.
I think my desire for immediacy in all things is not good.
It sounds like you called it into being, and by being ready for it when it arrived.
I love you both.
I love this post! It made me a bit teary eyed. Talk about some gorgeous people who had a lovely wife
Thanks for sharing.